Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

University of Birmingham

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

A violent end to the Libyan crisis also seems unlikely in the near term, as the forces in the country’s east will have trouble organizing an effective attack on Tripoli without the support of Russia, whose military has other things in sight

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Independent expert

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

PhD in Political Science

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member